Fanbinding: Echolocation by Darksknight
Bind #(my numbering system is off) Echolocation by Darksknight Date Completed: 12/31/2025 Size: Octavo. 93 pages, 8,535 words Summary: Kirk and Spock don’t realize that they’ve bonded right away. The rest of the crew is a different story.
I was looking at my 2025 stats and realized the number of books I made during the year was going to end at an awkward number. Clearly that meant I should try to cram another book in before the end, right? It would have to be a small one because I had three days for both typesetting and binding. And since I had a friend visiting soon I should make two copies because why not. And I did actually pull it off!
Octavos are such a great way to use up scraps, in this case some paste paper I made over the summer and some cardstock I mis-measured for an earlier project. It’s double sided paper and I used different sides for each copy for extra variation.
The typeset itself is very rough and ready, but a lot of fun to knock out quickly. I didn’t even run it through spellcheck (partly because Chekov’s accent is written out and I didn’t feel like hitting ignore for every word in his dialogue). I went a little overboard with the Astronomy dingbat font for the title page and scene dividers but stars were the logical choice. Federation Classic for the titles and Bell MT as the body font, just because I hadn’t used it yet this year .